On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw@gmail.com> wrote:

2011/2/13 Mohamed Mahir Ahamed Ibrahim <mahir78@gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> I wish to have a querystring with sectionname=Name of the section. Is it
> possible? or how can i acheive.
>

You can't do this directly, because there are all sorts of problems
with section names (duplicate names, for one thing). However, you can
retrieve the contents of a section by its number, by appending e.g.
&rvsection=3 to the normal page content query to get the content of
the 3rd section. You'd first have to look up the section number in the
section tree though.

Example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Barack_Obama&prop=sections

<s toclevel="3" level="4" line="Health care reform" number="4.2.2"
index="15" fromtitle="Barack_Obama" byteoffset="89649"
anchor="Health_care_reform" />

So the section called "Heath care reform" (line field) has number 15
(index field).

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Barack_Obama&rvprop=content&rvsection=15

returns the content of the section on health care reform.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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